Pearl Harbor, and a Lesson – 2004 Edition
Posted By Russ Emerson on December 7, 2004 at 12:00 am
Today is Pearl Harbor Day.
This is the battleship U.S.S. Arizona in the 1930s:
And this is the U.S.S. Arizona and 1177 of her crew today:
It would behoove our enemies — actual and potential — to realize that when the United States went to war after an unprovoked attack in 1941, it ended in fire.
America has a long memory.
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[This post is a slightly-edited repeat of last year’s Pearl Harbor post.]
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